Our Turnkey Automated Test Equipment utilize off-the-shelf proven components to maximize cost-saving while minimizing risk for our clients. However, our modular tester design also facilitates unique requirement of our clients such as custom fixture and hardware.
System Components
- We utilize the following components to design our EOL testers. We also work with client-specified components not listed here.
Hardware
- Durable bed-of-nails or custom fixtures
- National Instruments - PXI, CompactPCI
- Agilent / Keithley / Tektronix Test & Measurement equipment, Power Supplies, Electronic Load
- Robotic Arm / Industrial Robot
- Linear Stage, Stepper, Servo Motors, Precision Actuators
- Pneumatic Control Valves
- Barcode Readers - manual or automatic
- Emergency Stop Switch, safety design including limit or kill switches
- Tower Light
- Labels and/or reports Printer
- Monitor & Keyboard on swing arm or tray
- Durable parts & tester housing
- Sensors - Displacement, Pressure, Temperature, Vision
Software
- Windows XP / SP2 or Real-time OS (VXworks, LabVIEW RT)
- C / C++ / C# / Assembly
- LabVIEW, LabWINDOWS/CVI
- SQL / Access
- Firmware - bootloader and functionality code for 8 / 16 / 32 Microcontrollers and processors
- Eprom or processor programing & verification
- EEprom checker
Communication
- Ethernet, Wi-fi (802.11x), Zigbee
- GSM (GPRS / EDGE), CDMA
- USB, RS232, RS485, RS422
- CAN, J1939
- GPIB / IEEE-488
- I2C, SPI, UART / LIN, IrDA
Human Machine Interface
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
- Test Manager Suite
(Administrator / Programmer / Operator modes)
- Component Drivers - LabVIEW / .NET
- Automated Report Generation
- Microsoft Word (.doc)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls)
- Adobe Acrobat (.PDF)
- ASCII Text (.txt)
- Requirements database
- IBM DOORS
- Storage database
- Microsoft SQL
- Microsoft Access
